Philadelphia cops are completely and totally incompetent.

I got hit by a car last year - not a hit and run, fortunately she stopped when my head went through her windshield. The cops came and wrote a report stating that the woman who had hit me was driving the wrong way down a one way street when she caused the accident. The catch? No ticket. My leg was shattered and I’ll never walk the same again, but the woman who hit me has no consequences whatsoever.

I called and wrote letters for months asking for a ticket to be issued or at least asking for a reason why they wouldn’t enforce the law. I got my state representative to call and write for me, too. Both of us were always told the same thing - you have to talk to the cop who responded, and he’s not here right now. Try tomorrow morning, tomorrow night, next Monday, etc. Finally, one of the officers answering the phone told my state rep that the cop who we had to speak to “would never be available for this call”.

Also, a few years ago, a guy (in a car) threw a brick through my brother’s car window. Both of them were driving at the time, so my brother followed the car until it stopped in a driveway, the guy got out and went into the house. Luckily, there was a cop about a block away, so my brother stopped and told the cop about the incident. The cop just stared at him and asked him “so what do you want me to do about it.” My brother told him he wanted the cop to at least question the guy about the incident. The cop refused to do anything about it, but did offer one piece of advice for my brother in case it ever happened again - “If it was me,” he said, “I would have shot the guy.”